Software Update: Bolt 5.1

Version 5.1 of Bolt released. Bolt is an open source content management system and is in some ways comparable to programs such as WordPress and Drupal. Bolt is easy to use, for both installation and management, has several good looking templates that work with Twig are customizable, and optimized for both desktop and mobile environments. In version 5.0, Bolt has been given roles and permissions for Symfony and there is support for php version 8. The release notes for this release can be found below.

Orders of magnitude faster

Exciting news for your Bolt websites: the newest 5.1 release runs not one but two orders of magnitude faster. Creating and managing content has never before taken so little server time. This is a major improvement in the user experience for content editors, which the Core team is excited to deliver to all Bolt 5 websites.

Is this another good opportunity to roll up sleeves and upgrade your Bolt 3 site? Make sure to check out the upgrade blueprint explaining how to do this as easy as it gets.

Create, Read, Update and Delete (CRUD) content with Bolt’s API

Bolt 5.1 also arrives with a fully fleshed out API that now supports write operations (create, update and delete) for your content. Any external software, be that an event management platform or a client CRM can communicate with Bolt. The API provides both REST and GraphQL endpoints for maximum flexibility of your favorite tech stack.

Additional enhancements

In addition to the two major features of the release, we are releasing a number of smaller enhancements:

• Developers can override how fields are displayed in the backend #2929
• Prefix and postfix for relations #2990
• More details in the Bolt Logger #2913

As usual, we also included a number of bug fixes and reductions in technical debt.